callcongressnow

4 ms·

1.
by callcongressnow 12y ago
As far as I am aware, Julia isn't that fast for string operations yet. The language has been optimized for numerical calculations but they haven't done much work on making working with strings as fast as they could. I remember rea
2.
by callcongressnow 13y ago
A friend worked at a congress person's office a while back. When I told her about automating calls, she was not pleased. Very high noise to signal ratio. I think that effort would be better invested in informing the public and giving t
3.
by callcongressnow 13y ago
Thank you! It's actually really dumb. Like, it's piping out to Readability and then just searching for capitalized pairs of words and then pounding a hash-map for look ups of Congress folks. MVP or something right? https:/&#
4.
by callcongressnow 13y ago
[reposting this from another comment for visibility] Ever since the NSA business leaked, I've been thinking about this problem. It took me a few months to wrap my head around all the crazy stuff that's been going on but I've
5.
by callcongressnow 13y ago
Ever since the NSA business leaked, I've been thinking about this problem. It took me a few months to wrap my head around all the crazy stuff that's been going on but I've started building some systems that I think might have
6.
Show HN: Call Congress Now(callcongressnow.org)
2 points by callcongressnow 13y ago|0 comments
7.
by callcongressnow 13y ago
If you'd like to call or get in contact with Senator Sanders, try: http://www.callcongressnow.org/profile/S000033 Just click the call button, give the microphone permissions, and then it will call his Washington o